about jorge

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Jorge's passion for the violin and for music of the highest quality has lead him to direct, conduct &
lead international ensembles throughout Europe...

LISTEN & WATCH

Scarlatti-Fandango

Biber - Passacaglia

BAch - BWV565

Bach- Choral "O Grosse Lieb"

ongoing projects

Raw

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Raw is the ultimate solo violin music performance.
Sets of unaccompanied violin music presented in different forms depending on the venue and situation: renaissance
meets electronics, baroque vs hiphop, soundscapes, visual art...
A new view on music which evolves with every performance.

Contrapunctus

CONTRAPUNCTUS is more than a programme of music, is a concept which has taken violinist Jorge Jimenez to perform this highly demanding unaccompanied solo violin programme all over Europe, Turkey and South America.

On tour

launching the new project INSOMNIA - the full transcription for solo violin of bach's goldberg variations!

In the Heineken Jazz festival in San sebastian with Forma Antiqva

Leading Laudonia in StummerSchrei Festival in Tyrol.

Directing Capella Cracoviensis in Starosądeckiego Festiwalu Muzyki Dawnej

June 2017
leading I Fagiolini in Salisbury Cathedral

May 2017
Bach recital & Masterclass
in Vilanova I la Geltrú with Silvia Marquez

Leading Forma Antiqva in Auditorio nacional (Madrid-spain)

Debut in glyndebourne!
​leading I Fagiolini's "Other vespers" @Brighton Festival

February 2017

Leading forma Antiqva in the recording of "Poem of a cell" for winter&winter

january 2017

Leading forma antiqva in palau de la musica catalana (Barcelona)

Leading capella cracoviensis in Opera rara Festival, krakow

Leading I fagiolini in their Monteverdi orfeo production in Trondheim.

Tonadillas by Blas de laserna in Badajoz & Caceres
​with Orquesta de Extremadura under Aaron zapico

December 2016:
A peep back into last summer's beethoven event in Krakow!

October 2016
Done & Dusted! Recording with Capella Cracoviensis/Juan Sancho & David DQ Lee!

october 2016:
filming and Recording Jorge's arrangement of BWV565 in Krakow (PL)

SEPTEMBER 2016:
LIVE IN VARAZDIN:
​Gaspar sanz, jácaras!

SEPTEMBER 2016:
Live in Varazdin: Santiago de Murcia, Folias gallegas!

SEPTEMBER 2016:
Directing Tercia realidad on on the Premiere of "Duende" in Varazdin Baroque Evenings (Croatia)

Total success of "DUENDE" in one of the oldest European festivals: Varazdin Baroque Evenings (Croatia). The show has been described by the press as: "a surprising explosion of music and rhythms"

September 2016:
Touring With Arcangelo & nicolas altstaedt in Maribor Festival!

August 2016:
Just Back from Festiwal Bachowski Swidnica 2016

July 2016

leading the Recording of Porpora's Germanico in Germania for decca in Krakow

The Grand Tour arrives in Girona.

Leading OEX with Bartok and beethoven

April 2016 has brought Jorge back to Bartok and adds more Beethoven performances to a real Beethoven year (more info to come!)
leading Orquesta de Extremadura under Álvaro Albiach in Badajoz and Cáceres. 

Visit to eisenach

Another highlight from March 2016 was leading a Bach/Vivaldi programme in Eisenach, Johann Sebastian's birth town. Yeah! 

Leading Forma Antiqva @FeMAS

March 2016 was a incredibly busy month, it started with Jorge leading the Asturian orchestra Forma Antiqva in the Festival de Musica Antigua de Sevilla (FeMAS). The programme was Colpa, Pentimento e Grazia by Scarlatti.

Dr.Who met Jorge!

Last 25th of Feb Jorge had the pleasure to perform with Dame Emma Kirby and Dr. Who for a fundraising event from Coram.

February 2016:
Duende!

Preview of DUENDE, the new music programme by Jorge Jiménez & Tercia Realidad for this 2016/17 season.
“The duende is that Mysterious Force that everyone feels and no philosopher can explain” Goethe

DUENDE's Promo filming  happened in Mistley QUAY!

January 2016 saw the promo shooting and filming of Jorge and Tercia Realidad's new programme "DUENDE" in the derelict surroundings of Essex famous Mistley Quay. More soon :)

Vivat in pace

The all-Vivaldi programme by Tercia Realidad was premiered in Valladolid!

meeting Azzolini & Albiach with oex

October 2015
Directing the academy orchestra of the Festival bachowski swidnica

with La tempestad!

A souvenir of a fantastic production with La Tempestad from last February at the CNDM season at the Auditorio Nacional.

Swidnica bach festiwal 2015

With Tercia Realidad in Istanbul!!!

A bit of #raw bach.

Fresh video:
Purcell's chacony!

Just back from Valladolid (Spain) after the great succes of one of this season's new programme REJOYCE, featuring soloists Bibi Heal, soprano and Guillermo Peñalver traverso!

Some images of September and October

Of Jorge's visits to Mexico's Cervantino Festival, Colegio de Los Ingleses Valladolid-Spain, Gewandhaus Leipzig and Windsor Castle!

A souvenir from Contrapunctus in Slovenia...

A RAW LANDING IN AMSTERDAM!
The new solo programme by Jorge Jimenez has seen the light in a fabulous Classical Music Rave in the docks of Amsterdam!

Leipzig & Halle

Having devoted June to look after his little daughter, two short visits to the HandelFestspiele in Halle and to the Leipiger Bachfest were lovely highlights of this month of June!

Forthcoming events

5-15 August
Leading a bach recording for Challenge records with La Risonanza & Fabio Bonizzoni (Italy)

20 july
Opening the Heineken JazzAlDia Festival leading Forma Antiqua - Uri Caine - Joachim bademhorst & Others!

15 July
Leading Laudonia & Susan hamilton in Stummerschrei Festival Tyrol (Austria)

2nd July
​directing capella cracoviensis in Slovakia

27th June 2017:
Directing the Hanover band & danielle de niese in Buckingham palace (London-uk)

21st-22nd may 2017:
​bach recital & masterclass @AuditoriToldrà (Vilanova i la geltrú) 

18th may 2017:
​monteverdi orfeo @lfbm (London Festival of Baroque Music)

10th May 2017:
handel & vivaldi
@Auditorio nacional (Madrid) with Forma Antiqva

7th May 2017:
Leading Monteverdi's "other vespers" @Glyndebourne!

March-April 2017: Leading Handel's Agrippina @Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp.

January 2017: back in krakow to lead porpora in opera rara festival.

Last  #COntrapunctus
of 2016 in Purley (UK)

December 2016 to February 2017 
Leading the Band for "All The Angels" 

Play by NICK DRAKE AT THE SAM WANAMAKER'S PLAYHOUSE (THE GLOBE)

24,25,26 November 2016
Leading Orquesta de Extremadura (Dir. Álvaro Albiach) in Badajoz & Cáceres

19th NOvember
Directing Pergolesi  'stabat mater'
​with The Hanover Band @Stationers hall, london

13th November
Contrapunctus
@St Michael's Battersea (UK)

22nd October - 2nd November
Leading new CD recording with Capella cracoviensis

15th October
Leading the Hanover Band in Arundel

Back to lead the band, this time under the baton of legendary Roy Goodman: Mendelssohn, Mozart, Haydn and Vorisek. 

11 OCTOBER 2016
contrapunctus in croydon!

28th September 2016:
​Duende in Varazdin Baroque Evenings!

Jorge will direct Tercia Realidad with its new programme DUENDE at the prestigious croatian festival Varazdin Baroque Evenings 2016

7th August 2016: 
Premiere of Passio Secundum iesum christum in Swidnica, Poland

22 June 2016: Contrapunctus in Bromley (London)

Passio secundum iesum christum - a work in progress...

The core piece in Passio Secundum Iesu Christi will be Bach's BWV 1003! Here is a bite of it as aperitieve

Pasio secundum iesu christi @ Swidnica Bach Festival 2016!!!

Jorge's new concept, Passio Secundum Iesu Christi will be premiered at the Swidnica Bach Festival 2016!
In this programme, Jorge will be joined by the choir of Capella Cracoviensis for a a very personal reconstruction of the Passion of the Christ.

jorge's new project soon to be revealed

It will be premiered at the prestigious Festiwal Bachowski Swidnica in August... Watch this space...

"Seance" @40WINKS London

18th February 2016: Jorge will put music to the sold out event SEANCE at exclusive London hotel 40 Winks.

2016: "The Grand tour" leading Forma Antiqva and Carlos Mena.

17-18 DEC:Back to lead orquesta de extremadura!

vivaldi with Tercia realidad in Valladolid- 11 dec

Odissea @Wratislavia Cantans 2015!

Odissea inaugural tour!

Jorge Jimenez and Benjamin Bayl present their new venture ODISSEA with "Roman cantatas" at the Göttingen Handel Festival and London Handel Festival. More Info

Next Raw in Suffolk!

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Jorge will perform #RAW in Assington Mill -Suffolk (UK) . More info...

Don Giovanni @Opera Vlaanderen

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Jorge is back leading Antwerp Opera House in a brillantly hillarious production of Mozart's Don Giovanni. More info...

New #Raw dates!

2015 will be a #RAW year, we start with:

21st Feb- M.A.P. Madrid (ES)
6th Mar- RadialSystemV Berlin (DE)
4th April -Assington Mill Suffolk (UK)

Rejoyce!!! in valladolid

Jorge will be directing the premiere of Tercia Realidad's new programme Rejoyce!! with Bibi Heal soprano and Guillermo Peñalver, traverso as the soloists...

Jorge & Benjamin Bayl @B Minor Mass by Bach in Arundel!

Jorge is back to lead The Hanover Band together with conductor Benjamin Bayl for a monumental B Minor Mass by Bach!
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Jorge @ Cervantino festival Mexico!

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This october with a fab purcell programme with the New London Consort/Pickett!

Hot venues in September!
-Mendelssohn @Gewandhaus Leipzig
-Vivaldi @Cadogan Hall London
-solo Bach and handel @Windsor Castle

Raw
@ MEAM BARCELONA!!!

raw inside
First video in collaboration with Bolivian Artist Alejandra Dorado Camara!

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The next edition of the Classical Music Rave is here! This time at the Veronica Ship in Amsterdam!
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RAW will be presented next friday at the Classical Music Rave in Amsterdam!

RAW, is nearly here

Jorge's new revolutionary programme will be unleashed very soon...

New dates for the Touring Academy (April & June)

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London-Krakow-Barcelona-Amsterdam...

Easter is Here...

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...the Easter tour has begun.